A man in the United States illegally has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for involvement in an elaborate insurance fraud scam with ties to Las Vegas.

A hardened fraudster ran a massive $18 million insurance fraud scam that involved an NYPD cop and five crooked 911 operators, prosecutors charged Thursday.

The range of exposures facing corporation, as well as subsequent loss and claims scenarios, have increased significantly in recent years. There are rising court costs, disruptive recalls, political risks and environmental problems - all in the face of a challenging global pandemic.

One of our biggest challenges in dealing with COVID-19 is adapting traditional methods of limiting liability and risk transfer to our new environment. Contracting parties have long looked to provisions such as force majeure, limitations of liability, and indemnification to help manage risk.

The city of Charleston, South Carolina filed a lawsuit against two dozen of the largest pipeline and oil conglomerates, saying the firms are responsible for making the floods that often hit the port city more frequent and more damaging.

Nursing homes and managed care facilities across the country have been coronavirus hot spots, accounting for hundreds of thousands of cases. Often filled with elderly patients with underlying health conditions living in close quarters, these facilities have been a perfect breeding ground for the virus.

The global pandemic isn't necessarily causing a large number of problems around insurance issues in the real estate sector, but it's clogging up the pathway to making things better.

Self-insured employers facing the threat of COVID-19 workplace safety litigation could opt to accept infection workers compensation claims, as exclusive remedy clauses could provide better protection from expensive lawsuits later on, according to legal experts.

An Ontario court has ruled against an insurer's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit in which an argument was made that the woman on the receiving end of a hit-and-run could have reasonably done more to get the driver's information.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the world’s headlines, perhaps in health care more than any other field.

A Middleton, WI-based insurance company has paid a former exotic dancer more than $8 million over a contentious liability claim.

In a major expansion of an already sprawling FBI investigation, a federal grand jury Friday indicted 11 more people on a variety of fraud and conspiracy charges, accusing them of participating in staged accidents with 18-wheelers then filing bogus lawsuits to defraud trucking and insurance companies.

The industry has speculated for years whether and when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would seek to enforce civil monetary penalties (CMPs) that were provided for the in Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP). Now, we are almost there.

Pembridge Insurance Company of Canada has a duty to defend an insured who has liability coverage under a home insurance policy in a case in which the insured got out of his car and allegedly threatened another driver in a road rage incident.

Many businesses, schools, and event centers use waivers and hold-harmless agreements as a type of security blanket or an extra layer of protection from injury claims.